Combined clip and chafing-plate for mowing-machine finger-bars.



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COMBINED cLlP Aun cHAFmG PLATE Fon u'owm nAcHmE FINGER BARS.

fS//Sf/S/ UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE.

SAMUEL K. DENNIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO TI-IE PLANO MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED CLIP AND CHAFlNG-PLAT FOR MOWING-MACHINE FINGER-BARS.-

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,184, dated June 25, 1901. Application filed Tenney ze, 1901. senti No. 48,432. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.f

Be it known that I, SAMUEL K. DENNIS, ,a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Combined Clip and Chaflng-Plate for Blowing-Machine Finger-Bars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the mechanism ernployed 'for holding the sickle of a mowinginachine in place and also for furnishing a bearing upon which the sickle reciprocates.

To illustrate my invention, I annex hereto a sheet of drawings, in which the same reference characters are used to designate identical parts in all the figures, of which-L Figure 1 is a plan View of the finger-bar. Fig. 2 is an enlarged View of a portion of the finger-bar. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line A A of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a detached perspective view of the combined clip' and Charing-plate detached from'tle finger-bar.

The finger-bar d is of the ciiston'iary construction and has the customary nger b bolted to the under side thereof. The sicklebar has the blades d secured thereto in the customarymanner j but instead of having the bearing edge formed by the under side of the heels of the blades d reciprocating upon the edge of the ng'e'r-bar I employ the ehangplate and clip e, which has the long hardened bearing edges f, on the upper surface of Which the bearing edge' of the sickle reciprocates.

vThis chatting-plate and clip is preferably stamped up from sheet m'etal and hardened to any degree required, so that the wear on the edges f will be inappreciable. The clip portion g is raised from the body of the plate, as seen, and consists of the head h, resting on the upper surface of the sickle-blades d to hold them down, so that they will shear closely with the ledgerplatesj in the iingers d. The head h is connected with the body of the clip portion by the neck 7.a, which has its under surface'concave from front to rear and convex from side to side, so as to prevent the grass or any other material from clogging between the clip and the sickle. The plate e has the slightly-clon gated apertures Z therein, through which the bolts m pass to secure it to the finger-bar, the bolts m also passing through the fingers to clamp them to the bar ct. By means of these elongated apertures Z the chafingplate can be adjusted to any desired position relative to the edge vof the nger-bar, and at the same time the clip portion is also simultaneously adjusted, so that the parts will necessarily be in their proper relative position. The heads of the rivets fri, which connect the' sickle-blades to the sickle-bar, have space to move beneath the neck 7i; and serve to clear out any grass, duc., that might tend to accumulate between the clip and the sickle-bar;

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure b'yLetters Patent of the United States, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a combined chang-plate and clip for mowing-inachine finger-bars, consisting of the body portion having the hardened bearing edges, and the clip portion raised above said body and having the head connected to the body portion by the neck, the under surface of which is concave from front to rear and convex from side to side.

SAMUEL DENNIS.

Witnesses: v

S. J. LLEWELLYN, E. J. TAYLOR. 

